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Topic: The "CALTECH 5" Dough (Read 8623 times)

Since the California style pizza section of this forum is so sparse, I decided to post a novelty dough formula in honor of the 5th anniversary of the GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) mission. [ http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/ ] Despite the mission information being located at the University of Texas website, GRACE is managed by JPL, which in turn is managed by CALTECH, in California of course. I tried to the keep the math at a high school level, otherwise this would have been a lot more fun (for me anyway). The proportions are what I consider California style (i.e. high level of yeast, sugar, and oil), so in addition to its novelty, it aims to be authentic as well. I did back off a little on the yeast for this forum's frigid fermenting fetish fanbase. Attached is the dough formula in the form of equationally defined baker's percentages.

I really only wanted to provide the equations, but I know that there might be some who would have difficulty with this math, so here are the answers: